Our Goldfields.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1790, 3 February 1886, Page 3

Our Goldfields.

The West Coast Times recently bed a lead.ng article on tbe gold yield of New Zealand, in which it expressed itself thus, with respect to those who spoke of tbe supply decreasing : —We dismiss from our minds those thoughtless, unreasoning persons, who, because the gold is not found so easily or so quickly as before, imagine that it has worked out ; we are in doubt if tbe majority of our reaiders realise a conception of the vast golden wealth that at present surrounds us. Can it for one moment he supposed tnat another 20 years would even see the last of what has been strewn with such prodigal richness in our immediate vicinity ? Another hundred years will not see the last of alluvial mining on the West Coast. When this is exhausted we have still the fountain head to go to, tbe mountains from which all this wealth came Beneath those homes of ice and snow then exists, in all probability, enough gold to pay England's national debt. We know that New Zealand has already produced something like l£o tong of gold, of an estimated valut of forty three millions sterling ; and to pro duce this great quantity only the surface ha. been scraped. Years after the goldfields wen said to be worked out we find a tbriviiq population settled on them, steadily increasing the output. Facts like these speak for them selves and convince the most sceptical.